Ashgrove, QLD 4060

Not for me

Ashgrove is an outstanding suburb just 5km from the CBD, perfect for families seeking convenience and charm. Known for its beautiful character homes and low-density living, Ashgrove offers a welcoming community atmosphere with leafy streets and friendly neighbours. With its hilly terrain and iconic Ashgrovian homes from the early 20th century, the suburb exudes a charm that’s both historic and vibrantly modern. While surrounding areas have embraced apartment living, Ashgrove holds steadfast to its roots with detached houses and heritage-listed Queenslander homes. The suburb boasts more than 50 dining and shopping options, 30 parks, lush green spaces, and is renowned for its educational excellence with 5 top-rated schools and numerous childcare centres. This suburb truly offers a wonderful lifestyle and is a prime choice for families.

Moved here recently and don't know why I didnt earlier. Such a great community suburb with large parks and great schools!

Character homes, low density, parks, great schools, great neighbors, 5km from the CBD. What more could you want from this quintessential Brisbane suburb.

We have raised 4 kids here. Schools are great and the area is coming alive with new BBC parks and infrastructure. It’s so nice to see homes undergoing beautiful updates.

Ashgrove has many parklands and is only 6 km to Brisbane CBD. Quality primary and secondly schools in Ashgrove, too. A great suburb to live and raise the family.

There’s no other suburb in such proximity to Australia’s fastest growing city that offers large block living within such a quality inner city location.

Lovely environment, low density, great schools, high quality neighbourhood,
safe and quiet, great for professional and family
lots of parks for children
Convenient for daily living needs with shops, high quality medical facilities, banks, gyms, etc.
Not many entertainment places which is GREAT! This means the risks of late night noise or destructive behaviours are low.

Areas to improve:
Do NOT have any more subdivision for "modern" house, townhouse or flat development. They are damaging the environment and culture of Ashgrove.
It would be better if there are a bit more good quality restaurants.

It’s a leafy, lovely suburb, but in retrospect could do with a lot of upgrades!
- No train line, and while the CBD is close, is quite far from major shopping centres, and poorly connected to lots of other major roads. Jubilee Tce & Waterworks always super busy.
- Has the worst designed car parks in all of Brisbane - most of the businesses (Coles, Pizza Hut area, West Ashgrove) could do with being demolished and rebuilt from scratch.
- V, limited night entertainment considering how close to town. A lovely rooftop bar wouldn’t go astray.
- nothing to do on weekends, unless you count gps footy and walking the dog through the lovely parks.

No1. Ashgrove Street : My favourite quiet street in Ashgrove with the houses backing onto what seems to be a locals only, extremely beautiful Oakleigh Park. The younger and older school aged children who are only ever from the surrounding houses play happily in the newly built play ground equipment in Oakleigh Park as well as on the flat green space to play soccer, cricket and basketball on the court as well as safely running up and down the well maintained established cement footpaths. This street is perfect as you have the catchment only Oakleigh State Primary School only 150 metres away from the back gate yet no school traffic or parking. Oakeigh State School is a fantastic high academic standard medium sized state/ public primary school with fantastic facilities including a 25m pool oval with a newly built C & K Pre-Prep/ Preschool onsite as well as new state of the art large library along with its own ampitheatre! You also have Marist Brothers College 400 metres away which is a boys years 5 to 12 school with its own brand new 50 metre olympic pool (with its squads open to all local school children at lower intermediate squad level & above ) along with numerous ovals and academic opportunities! Mt. St. Michaels is a catholic girls school from year 7 to 12 school which is also walking distance of around 800 metres and is an excellent academic school. Express Bus services run very regularly at a nearby bustop, getting you to the city in 10 to 15 minutes which beats parking. Local cafe highly rated Frasers Cafe is only a short walk away along with Dorrington Park with it’s Enchanted Forrest Playground. Recommend driving down this street and taking sometime to enjoy the beautiful Fig tree lined Oakleigh Park out the back. Serenity!